Music for Gainsborough

Signum Classics SIGCD026

Lute Society Newsletter

There is a vibrancy and variety of colour which shines throughout their playing, making for a CD which is a joy to listen and relax to

Gramophone

… just the sounds to be heard in the wealthy households whose inhabitants Gainsborough painted so memorably … played with impeccable good taste. Lindsay Kemp

Early Music Forum of Scotland

A disc which is both musically satisfying and stimulating. Recommended. D James Ross

Tracklist

CF Abel: Sonata No. 1; Vivace for solo viol; Sonata in G major WKO147; JC Bach: Trust me wo'd you taste true pleasure; Sonata op.17/5; Anon: In diesen heil'gen Hallen (Mozart); T. Linley sen: I will never vow truth, Ah could you possibly know; T Linley jun: If thy too cruel bow; R Straube: Fantasie, Windsor Forest, Allegro, The Lass of Peatie's Mill, Hornpipe, Menuet 1 & 2, Adagio; F de Giardini: Andante from Sonata op.13/2;

Susanne Heinrich, Reiko Ichise - viols; Lynda Sayce - theorbo & baroque lute; Kah-Ming Ng - harpsichord & chamber organ